"Please don't hate me family," pleads Sunny/Bent's Beer Garden, "I couldn't resist the temptation. ... Yep, you guessed it ... I ate the first ripe strawberry of the season ... I feel so guilty ... I must say it was very tasty ... but not as tasty as the first snap pea was Lol!" Sunny, your secret's safe with us Merry Hucksters. More here.

• "Tea Parties for Dads"/A Family Runs Through It
• Book Review: "After" (Glad it's now history)/Arch Druid
• More info: Timberlake Fire District/Herb Huseland, Bay Views
• Chief Kirkpatrick's e-mail to Seattle mayor/David Laird, Community Comment
• Go, Monty!/Kerri Thoreson, More Main Street
• What's up with the cattitude?/Prime Beauty
• Endangered sea turtles/Robin Loznak Photography
• Red eyes and Annie/Marianne Love, Slight Detour
• Endings are the same/Tumblewords

HBO Numbers (for Thursday, June 10): 8138/4980